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  • Bottesford Local History Society - IMPORTANT Meeting Cancellation Details
    Bottesford Local History Society - IMPORTANT Meeting Cancellation Details
    Unfortunately due to the present coronavirus outbreak the committee have reluctantly decided to cancel both the April and May local history meetings. At the current time we are still hoping the summer outing to Rockingham Castle can go ahead, however we will be monitoring the situation and will send you an update in due course! Many of ...
  • Bottesford Celebrates VE & VJ Day
    Bottesford Celebrates VE & VJ Day
    The Grantham Journal (Saturday, 11th May 1945) The church bells rang in Bottesford on Surrender Day (VE Day), immediately after Winston Churchill’s proclamation. Bottesford bell ringers rang an opening peal of 360 changes of Grandsire Double and further ringing included “firing a victory salute”. Every seat was occupied in church for a thanksgiving service on the Tuesday evening ...
  • Village Voice digital archive
    Village Voice digital archive
    Copies of all the past issues of the newsletter are held here, for you to read.
  • Not Forgetting - Aspects of Village Life in Bottesford, Easthorpe, Muston and Normanton
    Not Forgetting - Aspects of Village Life in Bottesford, Easthorpe, Muston and Normanton
    This book is now available online via this web-page
  • Bottesford Local History Society
    Bottesford Local History Society
    We look forward to seeing you at our meetings, monthly, every second Thursday, Sept to May, 7.30, Fuller Room, Old School, Grantham Road, Bottesford  NG13 0DF £2.50 on the night, annual subscription £10.00
  • Muston School in 1940
    Muston School in 1940
    Remembered by Gerald Coy
  • Our WW1 servicemen
    Our WW1 servicemen
    A Roll of Honour of the men from Bottesford and Muston who served with the armed forces during the First World War, those who died doing their duty and those who survived the fighting.
  • Explore our Online Archive
    Explore our Online Archive
    road men at their ease outside the Red Lion, Grantham Road
  • Angels and Dragons: faces at St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford
    Angels and Dragons: faces at St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford
    Learn about the history of this beautiful Grade-1 Listed church: Buy the Book!

This website is a living history of the parish of Bottesford and Muston in Leicestershire. The editors are all members of the Bottesford History Group.

Through the site, people share their memories, photos, maps and information about Bottesford, past and present. Find out how you can contribute your own words and pictures.

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  • Finding a “new” Harry Harby picture

    Finding a “new” Harry Harby picture

    Showing how some detective teamwork identified the place and connection of a curious photograph and opened up a soldier’s service story
  • Coronavirus - Life During Lockdown

    Coronavirus - Life During Lockdown

    Follow the Download link to read the current Village Voice
  • Bottesford Local History Society - IMPORTANT Meeting Cancellation Details

    Bottesford Local History Society - IMPORTANT Meeting Cancellation Details

    Coronavirus measures
  • War’s pain never went away

    War’s pain never went away

    Remembering Troopers Harry Richmond Daybell and Frederick Kenneth Bend 2nd World War service
  • Jean and Peggy, Gladys and Edna

    Jean and Peggy, Gladys and Edna

    Women's Land Army Workers in Bottesford WW2
  • Ernest Robinson's poem about Normanton in WW2

    Ernest Robinson's poem about Normanton in WW2

    "Now here is a little story ..."
  • Bottesford Local History Society

    Bottesford Local History Society

    Programme of meetings - 2019-2020
  • Decay of the Red Lion

    Decay of the Red Lion

    Threat to a much-loved Bottesford landmark
  • Walter James Whittle

    Walter James Whittle

    Cpl 16958 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
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  • Jean and Peggy, Gladys and Edna

    Jean and Peggy, Gladys and Edna

    Women's Land Army Workers in Bottesford WW2
  • Lest We Forget: Bottesford & Muston in the Great War

    Lest We Forget: Bottesford & Muston in the Great War

    Now available
  • Finding a “new” Harry Harby picture

    Finding a “new” Harry Harby picture

    Showing how some detective teamwork identified the place and connection of a curious photograph and opened up a soldier’s service story
  • Coronavirus - Life During Lockdown

    Coronavirus - Life During Lockdown

    Follow the Download link to read the current Village Voice
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